Maintenance Planning Manager

Responsibilities

• Own the site's preventative maintenance work management process, including planning, scheduling, prioritization, execution tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Lead maintenance scheduling meetings and coordinate priorities across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Production, Quality, and Supply Chain.
• Establish governance for maintenance planning and scheduling processes.
• Develop and report KPIs including PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog, emergency work, wrench time, labor utilization, and planning effectiveness.
• Ensure CMMS data integrity, asset hierarchy governance, PM optimization, and master data management.
• Provide strategic maintenance performance updates to site leadership.
• Ensure preventive maintenance work is planned, scheduled, and completed on time.
• Carefully coordinate maintenance schedules with Operations.
• Support planning for capital projects requiring maintenance resources.
• Own planning and coordination of planned plant shutdowns.
• Develop integrated shutdown schedules.
• Coordinate contractors, vendors, Engineering, Operations, Utilities, and Maintenance.
• Conduct shutdown readiness reviews and post-shutdown lessons learned.
• Provide governance of the CMMS.
• Maintain PM library and asset hierarchy.
• Oversee system upgrades, reporting, and KPI dashboards.
• Ensure GMP-compliant maintenance documentation.
• Lead MRO storeroom operations and inventory strategy.
• Optimize inventory levels and cycle counting.
• Coordinate purchasing with Supply Chain.
• Establish standardized kitting processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, Supply Chain, Business, or 5+ years of relevant experience.
• 7+ years of maintenance planning, reliability, or maintenance experience.
• Experience in pharmaceutical or GMP manufacturing preferred.
• Experience with CMMS systems.
• Experience managing maintenance planning and scheduling, shutdown planning, MRO inventory, contractor coordination, and maintenance performance metrics.
• Strong understanding of preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance principles.
• Working knowledge of FDA regulations, cGMP requirements, and maintenance documentation practices.
• Excellent communication, project management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.